Many of the various areas of physics, especially the major ones, have refereed journal articles within which there is an author chosen need to describe observations using a dominant group differentiation.

Def. the nature and properties of "matter and energy and their interactions"[1] is called physics.

Many of the early laws begin to make sense and increase understanding of the phenomena observed when coupled to experimental and theoretical studies performed in a laboratory here on Earth under controlled conditions.

Is dominant group a universal in human nature? Or, is dominant group used outside humanities, in fields like physics, because there are a few humans who believe dominant group and the concept behind it is a universal?

"Humanism is a group of philosophies and ethical perspectives which emphasize the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers individual thought and evidence (rationalism, empiricism), over established doctrine or faith (fideism)."[2]

Examples from primary sources are to be used to prove or disprove each hypothesis. These can be collected per subject or in general.

Accident hypothesis: dominant group is an accident of whatever processes are operating.

Artifact hypothesis: dominant group may be an artifact of human endeavor or may have preceded humanity.

Association hypothesis: dominant group is associated in some way with the original research.

Bad group hypothesis: dominant group is the group that engages in discrimination, abuse, punishment, and additional criminal activity against other groups. It often has an unfair advantage and uses it to express monopolistic practices.

Control group hypothesis: there is a control group that can be used to study dominant group.

Entity hypothesis: dominant group is an entity within each field where a primary author of original research uses the term.

Evolution hypothesis: dominant group is a product of evolutionary processes, such groups are the evolutionary process, produce evolutionary processes, or are independent of evolutionary processes.

Identifier hypothesis: dominant group is an identifier used by primary source authors of original research to identify an observation in the process of analysis.

Importance hypothesis: dominant group signifies original research results that usually need to be explained by theory and interpretation of experiments.

Indicator hypothesis: dominant group may be an indicator of something as yet not understood by the primary author of original research.

Influence hypothesis: dominant group is included in a primary source article containing original research to indicate influence or an influential phenomenon.

Interest hypothesis: dominant group is a theoretical entity used by scholarly authors of primary sources for phenomena of interest.

Metadefinition hypothesis: all uses of dominant group by all primary source authors of original research are included in the metadefinition for dominant group.

Null hypothesis: there is no significant or special meaning of dominant group in any sentence or figure caption in any refereed journal article.

Object hypothesis: dominant group is an object within each field where a primary author of original research uses the term.

Obvious hypothesis: the only meaning of dominant group is the one found in Mosby's Medical Dictionary.

Original research hypothesis: dominant group is included in a primary source article by the author to indicate that the article contains original research.

Primordial hypothesis: dominant group is a primordial concept inherent to humans such that every language or other form of communication no matter how old or whether extinct, on the verge of extinction, or not, has at least a synonym for dominant group.

Purpose hypothesis: dominant group is written into articles by authors for a purpose.

Regional hypothesis: dominant group, when it occurs, is only a manifestation of the limitations within a region. Variation of those limitations may result in the loss of a dominant group with the eventual appearance of a new one or none at all.

Source hypothesis: dominant group is a source within each field where a primary author of original research uses the term.

Term hypothesis: dominant group is a significant term that may require a 'rigorous definition' or application and verification of an empirical definition.

Perhaps the fundamental question is "Why are physicists using the term, dominant group, that apparently has its origin in entomology or culture?"

The term "dominant group" appears to be used in physics as in astronomy to identify entities of importance. The genera differentia for possible definitions of "dominant group" fall into the following set of orderable pairs:

'Orderable' means that any synonym from within the first category can be ordered with any synonym from the second category to form an alternate term for "dominant group"; for example, "superior class", "influential sect", "master assembly", "most important group", and "dominant painting". "Dominant" falls into category 171. "Group" is in category 61. Further, any word which has its most or much more common usage within these categories may also form an alternate term, such as "ruling group", where "ruling" has its most common usage in category 739, or "dominant party", where "party" is in category 74. "Taxon" or "taxa" are like "species" in category 61. "Society" is in category 786 so there is a "dominant society".

"A related, but separate, definition relies on a linguistic identity that differs from that of the dominant society [5]."[4]

"Indeed, among the dominant group of signals, ie, whistles (W), we did not detect any signals of this type."[7]

"This ridge can be used to trace out the dominant group velocity packet as a function of frequency for this site."[8]

"The number of modes having a reverberation time in a specified time interval is expressed as a function of the total allowed degrees of freedom and it is shown that even when the number of degrees of freedom of the model is large there is, in general, no one dominant group."[9]

"Agrophysics is closely related to biophysics, but is restricted to the biology of the plants, animals, soil and an atmosphere involved in agricultural activities and biodiversity. It is different from biophysics in having the necessity of taking into account the specific features of biotope and biocoenosis, which involves the knowledge of nutritional science and agroecology, agricultural technology, biotechnology, genetics etc."[10]

"In the small basin (station 1) a mass development of the chrysophyte Dinobryon divergens was observed, so the dominant group in both abundance and biomass was Chrysophyceae. On the two deeper sampling stations the dominant groups changed from Cryptophyceae (mainly Rhodomonas lacustris) to Chlorophyceae and Dinophyceae (Fig. 1)."[11]

"According to Kim et al. [1997], fungi constitute a dominant group among microorganisms decomposing humus substances in terms of the number of species."[12]

"Applied physics is a general term for physics which is intended for a particular technological or practical use.[13] It is usually considered as a bridge or a connection between "pure" physics and engineering.[14]"[15]

"This implies that, in the former range, the disturbance will consist of a single dominant group whose frequency increases as tito increases; in the second range of ... two dominant groups, differing in frequency and wavelength, will arrive simultaneously at the point considered."[16]

"A deconvoluted inhomogeneous linewidth broadening of 14.9 meV from the dominant group of QDs in the crystal is obtained."[17]

"[T]he current across the dominant group of shunts and the two point-like shunts is 150mA."[18]

A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

"Astrophysics at its simplest is the application of laboratory physics, i.e., physics demonstrated in a laboratory and described with logical laws, to natural astronomical entities. This is done to understand these astronomical entities, their origin, history, and current constitution."[19]

"[A] star lacking one dominant AR, or with several ARs spaced in longitude, might not show a clear rotational signal."[20]

SDR "will most easily be detected among stars that have relatively stable modulation over several rotations within a season from a dominant group of ARs that experience a noticeable change in mean AR latitude (corresponding to a change in mean rotational period) between consecutive observing seasons."[20]

"On very active stars with large filling factors, ΔP may be minimized because the periods determined might only result from a limited latitude band where enough "gaps" in the plage exist to permit detection of rotation modulation."[20] ΔP equals the maximum observed rotational period (Pmax) minus the minimum (Pmin).[20]

Notation: let the symbol Z stand for atomic number.

let the symbol PeV stand for 1015 electron volts.

"The most dominant group is the iron group (Z = 25 − 27), at energies around 70 PeV more than 50% of the all-particle flux consists of these elements."[21]

Notation: let the symbol keV stand for 103 electron volts.

Compact groups of galaxies are tight associations of galaxies.[22] Their compactness suggests extremely short crossing times and a very rapid evolution.[22] Computer simulations suggest that a compact "group coalesces into a giant dominant galaxy in a small number of crossing times."[22] "Alternately, compact groups may be transient unbound cores of loose groups".[22] A third alternative is that they are mostly chance alignments within larger loose groups of galaxies.[22]

"In a physically dense group one would expect that the majority of the galaxies would exhibit visible signs of interaction."[22]

"At the same time, the dominant group members are as likely to be spirals as ellipticals, hence suggesting that systematic merging has not (yet) occurred".[22]

This is an atomic interferometer called the Atomic Fountain at Stanford University. Credit: Steve Jurvetson.

Def. "[t]he branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei"[26] is called atomic physics.

"Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. It is primarily concerned with the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus and the processes by which these arrangements change."[27]

"To cope with all reasonable ranges of dynamic thermal plasma in low- to medium-density plasma excluding short-period observations of the most highly impulsive events, the group of dominant populations is expanded to include low lying metastable states of ions and the collisional-radiative coefficients are renamed the generalized collisional-radiative coefficients."[28]

"Finally, microflagellates were the dominant group in slope and basin regions of the model, where the different size classes of autotrophic flagellates constituted ~74% of the carbon biomass in August 1994 [Booth and Horner, 1997]."[31]

"In many sediments, the bacteria probably account for 90–99% of the biomass, thus making the prokaryotes by far the dominant group in terms of metabolic potential."[32]

"Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics; it is the branch of physics that studies chemical processes from the point of view of physics. While at the interface of physics and chemistry, chemical physics is distinct from physical chemistry in that it focuses more on the characteristic elements and theories of physics. Meanwhile, physical chemistry studies the physical nature of chemistry."[34]

"In physics, a wave packet (or wave train) is a short "burst" or "envelope" of wave action that travels as a unit. A wave packet can be analyzed into, or can be synthesized from, an infinite set of component sinusoidal waves of different wavenumbers, with phases and amplitudes such that they interfere constructively only over a small region of space, and destructively elsewhere.[36]"[37]

"Depending on the evolution equation, the wave packet's envelope may remain constant (no dispersion, see figure) or it may change (dispersion) while propagating. Quantum mechanics ascribes a special significance to the wave packet: it is interpreted to be a "probability wave" describing the probability that a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum. It is in this way similar to the wave function."[37]

With respect to dominance, "[t]he components with maximum velocity become increasingly dominant in the determination of the front of the wave packet."[38]

"[T]he dominant group velocity manifests as a linear dependence of the wave packet maxima with time."[38]

This image shows a davit with a block and tackle. Credit: Georges Jansoone.

Def. "all of the physical laws of nature that account for the behaviour of the normal world, but break down when dealing with the very small ... or the very fast or very heavy"[39] is called classical mechanics.

"During the Restoration, each time two theories presented radical differences in their structures the dominant group of physicists misinterpreted the theoretical differences as mere innovations to be derived from the old Newtonian RPM."[40]

This is a VLF spectrogram of an electromagnetic chorus, as received by the Stanford University VLF group's wave receiver at Palmer Station, Antarctica. The chorus can be seen between 1000 Hz and 3000 Hz, sandwiched between components of sferics. Credit: Drdan14.

Def. "a field of study ... that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism"[46] is called electromagnetism.

The diagram shows the dissymmetrical gravity field of the Earth. Credit: NASA.

Def. a field of study that combines the "[r]esultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation [with] [g]ravitation, [a] universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other"[50] is called gravity.

The image shows a portion of the beam line for the Large Hadron Collider at Dubna, Russia. Credit: Sergey Pyatakov / Сергей Пятаков.

Def. physics that consists of theory, experiment, accelerators and detection-device technology to study high-energy interactions, usually at relativistic speeds, is called high-energy physics.

"The problems encountered in measuring quadrupole moments of sd shell nuclei are the low excitation cross sections and the difficulty of separating the inelastically scattered particles from the dominant group of elastically scattered projectiles."[52]

"Waters of “local” rainfall and imported, “Colorado” River aqueduct origins are easily distinguished from dominant, “native” Santa Ana river compositions by use of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope analysis."[53]

"The Santa Ana river isotopic signature will also be shown to be nearly identical to that observed for the dominant group of Orange County groundwater wells sampled in this study".[53]

"It seemed clear to me that academic physicists represented a 'dominant
group'. Their values and interests shaped the traditional curriculum for school physics,
and they had the power to control its content."[59]

"Perhaps thirty years is not long enough for examiners to adapt their methods to the circumstance that professional physicists and not school teachers are now the dominant group in their classes."[60]

"Professors of the MV Lomonosov Moscow State University make up the dominant group of authors."[61]

"The dominant group of particles is especially vulnerable to local disturbances in the plasma created by a wave, by turbulence, or simply by particle collisions, which can disturb their phases or even untrap them."[62]

"The most dominant group of the Fourier modes with exists around the Mercier-unstable region, and other two groups with and extend from the Mercier-unstable region into the Mercier-stable region."[63]

"In physics, a nonlinear X-wave (NLX) is a multi-dimensionalwave that can travel without distortion. At variance with X-waves, a nonlinear X-wave does exist in the presence of nonlinearity, and in many cases it self-generates from a Gaussian (in any direction) wave packet."[66]

"Nonlinear X waves are indeed stationary localized wave packets WP's which have shown to play a key role in the [spatiotemporal] ST dynamics in focusing media with normal group-velocity dispersion GVD or dominant group-velocity mismatch (GVM)".[67]

"Detailed examination of the calculations shows that although charged quartets can be neglected (xql < xqo) it is not possible for the neutral quartets to pick out a small dominant group of geometries."[70]

"The dominant group is (SiGe)SiH, at T, = 190 "C and is replaced by (Ge,)SiH, at T, = 250 "C."[71]

"Spintronics (a neologism meaning "spin transport electronics"[72][73]), also known as magnetoelectronics, is an emerging technology that exploits both the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-state devices."[74]

"This group, the dominant group, is characterized by the lowest damping and the highest coupling to the pump field".[75]